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It's called knock-a-door-run, you savages.
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I am amused by the name Peaky Blinders, a street gang named for the practice of hiding razors in their hat brims to use as an eye-gouging weapon. Just, the idea of presenting oneself as a terrifying gangster by spreading rumors about your incredibly dangerous peakies. It’s practically baby talk.
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"Knicky-knocky-nine-doors" when I were a lad as you had to jump walls/fences and do it to nine places without getting busted.
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What's the preferred term for the Value Added Tax, is it Vat, like the thing you make multiple large portions of stew in, or Vee-Ay-Tee?
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Elviscat posted:What's the preferred term for the Value Added Tax, is it Vat, like the thing you make multiple large portions of stew in, or Vee-Ay-Tee? Vee ay tee. Also, as soon as I saw the popular game mentioned above, I thought there would probably then be every different possible version of the name which will be different to the name used by the town a few miles down the road because that's how the country operates. (knock down ginger) (also it's called a roll or a bap)
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Apr 24, 2021 09:11
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Pretty sure we called the door knock game "chappie".
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Apr 26, 2021 09:37
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Just Knock and Run down my way. Pretty basic.
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Apr 26, 2021 09:44
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There's a lot about this country I don't like, but I do like that for middle aged women "my love" is just something you call a person who's come into your cafe to buy a sandwich.
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Apr 26, 2021 10:00
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Or in certain parts 'my lover'
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Dr Christmas posted:I am amused by the name Peaky Blinders, a street gang named for the practice of hiding razors in their hat brims to use as an eye-gouging weapon. Just, the idea of presenting oneself as a terrifying gangster by spreading rumors about your incredibly dangerous peakies. It’s practically baby talk. I feel the exact same way. It's like ooooooooo scary peakies. Watch out they don't mash your fingies with their booties. I've only see the first season and I enjoyed it but I had a hard time taking it seriously. And it is extremely serious.
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I wonder if Peaky Blinders parties will become a thing again? I ended up at one once because a friends band played a set at one (they mainly do 50s influenced pop, so I think the organisers just said "eh, close enough" and booked them) and it was just a normal "coke and blue WKDs" lads night except they all wore funny hats. Cults of toxic masculinity pop up around any given crime TV show, but the Peaky Blinders one feels almost cute in regards to how close to cosplay it comes.
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Whenever I think of peaky blinders I think of a bunch of british dudes surrounding me saying "lets get a look at those peakies" and it makes me laugh even though it sounds like theyre planning to take out my eyes.
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I’m watching peaky blinders for the first time now, and just found out that Helen McCrory, who played Aunt Polly, just died a week and a half ago from cancer. I also learned that one of her early roles was “2nd Whore” in Interview with the Vampire. Disco Pope posted:I wonder if Peaky Blinders parties will become a thing again? Never heard of one but it sounds fun besides the heavy wool clothes
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Tsaedje posted:Or in certain parts 'my lover' Cornwall goon reprazent. Wassmadderboy?
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Whybird posted:There's a lot about this country I don't like, but I do like that for middle aged women "my love" is just something you call a person who's come into your cafe to buy a sandwich. I had to get a blood draw the other day, and the phlebotomist nurse repeatedly called me 'my darling'. And I'm not, of course, but it was clear she was trying to comfort me by doing it. As a dude though, I'm not dropping anything like that when interacting with female retail or hospitality workers. Not suggesting you are, but just saying it's very much something that's now only acceptable for women, but was common for men to do not that long ago. The Geordie 'pet' is short for 'petal' rather than calling someone a domestic animal, and I think kind of sweet. Disco Pope posted:Pretty sure we called the door knock game "chappie". 'Chap door run' for me
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That may be regional because I think it's still relatively gender neutral where I live, or at least I get called it that much that I can't help calling people it back.
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The South West has its own selection of delightful phrases. Alongside 'reet m'luvvr?' or 'reet me babber?' (how ya doing) we have a bus driver acknowledgement, 'cheerz drive!' and the old fashioned dismissal of someone you don't like out the corner of your mouth 'prrrck'
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Apr 28, 2021 22:51
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kecske posted:where I grew up, people spoke like this It meanders back and forth between perfectly intelligible and flbrlgrblgibbinny. It's great.
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Apr 28, 2021 23:29
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I was reminded of the phrase "full of piss and vinegar" and it is a good one. I gather it made it to the americas at some point in the early 20th century.
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OwlFancier posted:I was reminded of the phrase "full of piss and vinegar" and it is a good one. I gather it made it to the americas at some point in the early 20th century. I've only ever heard it used by Grampa Simpson
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My grandmother used to say it.
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This one’s not really a Britishism, but “piss and vinegar” reminds me of “smoke and oakum”.
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May 5, 2021 11:24
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The word "bollocks"
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May 5, 2021 14:34
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I like "yonks"
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ReidRansom posted:I like "yonks" I would like you to know that this is your fault: https://twitter.com/Brainmage/status/1390014357589958658
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May 5, 2021 19:44
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Oh making GBS threads hell!
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Prurient Squid posted:Do people use the term "Zebra crossing" outside of Britain? We use 'Zebra path' in Dutch.
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Egg cups
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Platystemon posted:Egg cups How else can someone have a boiled egg?
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BooDooBoo posted:How else can someone have a boiled egg? Very carefully
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PipHelix posted:Zed - British pronunciation of the letter 'Z' I know this is late but only just wandered into the thread. I work for a company here in the UK that supplies a product called 'EZ Wraps'. They are manufactured by an American company and I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be pronounced 'easy wraps'. You know, because the product is easy to use. This doesn't stop people calling them 'E Zed Wraps' all the time and it's way more irritating than it should be to someone who was also raised to pronounce it like that. Anyway our best phrase is 'u wot m8' because it can mean so many different things depending on tone, inflection and context. You could have been misheard, confused someone, be getting mocked by a friend, or be about to get glassed.
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Platystemon posted:Egg cups What are they called elsewhere?
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Platystemon posted:Egg cups Egg cups I like. They make it possible to have a soft egg, with a yummy liquid yolk to dip bits of toast into. An absurd thing, really, but nice on a rainy morning, of which I hear they have lot in Britain, so go figure.
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https://twitter.com/drjessphd/status/1404771990859288580?s=21
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Alaois posted:this is an absolutely deranged line of posting you've struck on, great job https://www.theonion.com/guy-who-took-job-making-barrels-in-1400s-didn-t-mean-fo-1847123804 Months on, I am vindicated!
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BooDooBoo posted:How else can someone have a boiled egg? I love softboiled eggs, and yet as an American I have never had an issue rolling the shell off and eating them by hand, just like hardboiled. Just be careful how you bite. Or if you don't want to snarf them in one or two chomps, cut em up on toast. Thought your houses were smaller than ours? My kitchen cabinets don't have room for special little cups for one kind of breakfast I have less often than monthly!
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You can put other stuff in the same cabinet
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